Another Reorg

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Yet another reorg of my studio workspace. See those two 3-drawer units in the upper left of the photo? They are the culprits. I punch a decent amount of shapes in trial and error of designing. I've been keeping them in little boxes in each drawer of that color paper but even that's become unwieldy. So I bought these little drawer units - see the shape (or half shape if it was too big) taped to the front of each drawer indicating what's inside? A place for everything and everything in it's place.

But I couldn't for the life of me fit them in to my old workspace arrangement. So yesterday I came up with the above. I was this close to going to Target to buy something (not sure what) to make this work when I steeled myself to make this work somehow. It was then I remembered I had this wooden box in the basement. (I love how that works!) I actually had 3 boxes like this, of varying size, at one time. I didn't see the other two yesterday - wonder if I gave them away?

My biggest problem is always how to make this work, not let the sun shine steadily on the paper, keep stuff handy and most importantly, not block my view out of this big beautiful window. There's another window next to it so it's not like it's my only view, but still. I look out over the neighbor's Christmas tree farm - nothing but nature as far as the eye can see.

As I was putting this stuff together, Verona the Black Cat, curled up in the center space before I put that wood box in there. I seriously considered figuring out how to make it work around her. But really, as much as I liked having her there, she would be very disruptive coming and going from that spot - and most importantly, I can't have her black fur glued into my pieces. That might be a different look altogether but not one I'm going for. I wish I'd taken a picture of her there though - she was adorable.

I'll have to live with this a while to see if it's going to work but I think it is. Now on to the rest of the studio. There are still boxes in there from my last show because I wanted to reorganize them a bit plus photograph the framed pieces for the website plus a couple of bags from vacation.

Btw, I finally found a copy of Studios while on vacation. I really thought I had pre-ordered one online months ago - I'll have to check my MS Money. I checked a couple of stores before I found one, I was afraid I'd missed it on the newsstand. I highly recommend it.

Besides looking at all the cool art studios, from a corner of a room to a full building, I also gleaned an idea for a new product for my art. I have one word for you. Clocks.

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